[Solved] Dual-Booting With Win 10, Internal HDD does not appear in Mint

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[Solved] Dual-Booting With Win 10, Internal HDD does not appear in Mint

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Hey everyone. I've been pulling my hair out for the last few hours on this issue, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rocking the fresh install of Cinnamon, dual-booted with Windows 10. Both operating systems are running on an internal SSD, with one internal HDD and two external HDD's using NTFS. The external HDD's were mounted automatically after installing Mint, but the internal HDD doesn't appear at all when I boot into Mint. There's no indication that the drive exists in GParted, the built-in disk manager, nor is it listed with the "fdisk", "inxi", or "parted" commands you'll see below.

I'm about as green as it gets when it comes to Linux, so thank you in advance for any advice on this.

fdisk -l

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Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 953.89 GiB, 1024209543168 bytes, 2000409264 sectors
Disk model: SSDPEMKF010T8 NVMe INTEL 1024GB         
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 3590F3AF-87CF-46EE-9ACA-C0E29B25D9EC

Device              Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1       2048     309247     307200   150M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2     309248     571391     262144   128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3     571392 1633557144 1632985753 778.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 1966868480 1968895999    2027520   990M Windows recovery environm
/dev/nvme0n1p5 1968896000 1997426687   28530688  13.6G Windows recovery environm
/dev/nvme0n1p6 1997428736 2000408575    2979840   1.4G Windows recovery environm
/dev/nvme0n1p7 1633558528 1966868479  333309952   159G Linux filesystem

Partition table entries are not in disk order.


Disk /dev/sda: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Dual SATA Bridge
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 3E671A56-7B00-4CB3-85F5-13656E67D59E

Device          Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1        2048    2097151    2095104  1023M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2     2097152    2834431     737280   360M EFI System
/dev/sda3     2834432    3096575     262144   128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4     3096576 1910956031 1907859456 909.8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  1910958080 1912014847    1056768   516M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6  1912014848 1953523711   41508864  19.8G Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/sdb: 3.65 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Disk model: Dual SATA Bridge
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A7E4F03B-3BFB-40D8-93E7-1D50AF57F52F

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1     34      32767      32734   16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2  32768 7814033407 7814000640  3.7T Microsoft basic data

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
inxi -Fxxxrz

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System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.6 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Alienware product: Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition 
  v: 1.0.7 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Alienware model: 0NWN7M v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Alienware 
  v: 1.0.7 date: 07/15/2020 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
  L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 114985 
  Speed: 2193 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2195 2: 2196 3: 2193 4: 2196 5: 2196 6: 2195 7: 2193 8: 2195 9: 2195 
  10: 2191 11: 2198 12: 2192 13: 2195 14: 2196 15: 2193 16: 2192 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 5.48 TiB used: 1001.02 GiB (17.8%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: SSDPEMKF010T8 NVMe INTEL 1024GB size: 953.87 GiB 
  speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 7004 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-60ZF5A0 
  size: 931.51 GiB rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST4000VN008-2DR166 
  size: 3.64 TiB rotation: 5980 rpm serial: <filter> scheme: GPT 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device driver: N/A v: N/A 
  port: N/A bus ID: 02:00.1 chip ID: 1022.43bd rev: 01 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 155.44 GiB used: 13.62 GiB (8.8%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 
parted --list

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Model: Sabrent Dual SATA Bridge (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  1074MB  1073MB  ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      1074MB  1451MB  377MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 3      1451MB  1585MB  134MB                Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      1585MB  978GB   977GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 5      978GB   979GB   541MB   ntfs                                       hidden, diag
 6      979GB   1000GB  21.3GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, msftdata


Model: Sabrent Dual SATA Bridge (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 4001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      17.4kB  16.8MB  16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 2      16.8MB  4001GB  4001GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata


Model: SSDPEMKF010T8 NVMe INTEL 1024GB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1024GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  158MB   157MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 2      158MB   293MB   134MB                Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      293MB   836GB   836GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 7      836GB   1007GB  171GB   ext4
 4      1007GB  1008GB  1038MB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag
 5      1008GB  1023GB  14.6GB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag
 6      1023GB  1024GB  1526MB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag
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Re: Dual-Booting With Win 10, Internal HDD does not appear in Mint

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NightMoves wrote: Sun Oct 17, 2021 4:49 amRocking the fresh install of Cinnamon, dual-booted with Windows 10. Both operating systems are running on an internal SSD, with one internal HDD and two external HDD's using NTFS. The external HDD's were mounted automatically after installing Mint, but the internal HDD doesn't appear at all when I boot into Mint. There's no indication that the drive exists in GParted, the built-in disk manager, nor is it listed with the "fdisk", "inxi", or "parted" commands you'll see below.
Welcome to the forum, NightMoves.

What is on the internal HDD?

After reading this thread Aurora R10, replacing HDD with SDD, clean windows load, bios not seeing drive on the Dell community forum, two questions comes to mind.

Is the BIOS recognizing you have the internal HDD installed?
And how are your drives set up? The inxi info does not indicate the configuration.

RAID:
Hardware-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device driver: N/A v: N/A
port: N/A bus ID: 02:00.1 chip ID: 1022.43bd rev: 01
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Re: Dual-Booting With Win 10, Internal HDD does not appear in Mint

Post by NightMoves »

Thank you SMG. My issue is resolved now. Attempting to answer your questions, I double checked how my drives were set up in the BIOS, and discovered that my drives were set to RAID, rather than AHCI. I remembered another post in this section of the forums mentioned how that configuration could cause some similar issues. Once I changed the setting to AHCI, the missing drive appeared in Mint with no issues.
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